I've been looking at The Saltings, the tidally flooded area of Hayle Estuary for nigh on 60 years now... | FB HDG Peter F Clemo

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I've
been looking at The Saltings, the tidally flooded area of Hayle Estuary
for nigh on 60 years now. It strikes me that it is getting more and
more shallow as the years go on. Fair enough it is little or no use
except as an area of outstanding beauty and as a bird sanctuary but what
happens when it's no longer flooded by the tide and the birds and
wildlife are all lost. Will someone have a monster moan at the RSPB for
allowing the habitat to be destroyed. Hayle estuary is looking very much
in need of dredging despite the sluicing that goes on. It won't be
many years before there is no estuary or harbour in my view if some
remedial action isn't taken. Has the sluicing done any good or should it
be done when the tide has completely dropped and the waterways can be
properly scoured by both the Carnsew reservoir and the Copperhouse pool

John MinshallWhen
I was a kid the Copper house pool filled up twice a day with the tide
unless they closed the sluice gate. The water on the highest spring tide
would make it up to the garden path. The stream used to be teaming with
trout and when the tide came in you
would see eels and grey mullet. How often do 'they' let the tide in now?
To be honest I cant remember the last time I saw it in. And who does
control it? surely not the RSPB.

John MinshallThat's
strange, I overlook the marsh and haven't noticed the tide up in many
years. It used to come up to the top of the small arch on black bridge
for your reference. Maybe I'm just not around at the right time?

John MinshallYeah
I just checked and the water is running out not in at the moment. I
wonder if they close the gates on a spring tide to stop flooding? Seems
like in my memory it was always a lot higher than it is these days.

Ken StokellFor
a start rspb claim that there are winter migration birds on the estuary
when pressed for for a less vague answer they said geese and cormorants
well for a start geese are a summer migration bird and cormorants
that's laughable as 1) they don't migrate and 2) they are a diving bird
not a mud flat feeder they may have been seen on the estuary but they
surely don't depend, live or feed on the estuary mud flats

Peter F Clemohigh
tide is tomorrow morning some time after 9...tides are dropping back
after last weeks high springs. A fella I know who's a lot older tan me
says he can remember when copperhouse would fill to the black bridge and
into the land beyond that right up to the road by the kids play area
is. It's so overgrown now

Graham CoadCopperhouse
Pool and Wilson's pool levels are all down to the Environment Agency
who control how much water comes in with their flood prevention gate,
which, to save money on wages they keep at a low level of around five
feet. They are all for flood prevention.

Peter F ClemoAndrew Thompson
....apart from the streams filling on the biggest of spring tides I've
never seen any more flood than that. Learn something new everyday.
That's a prime example of wetland lost to wildlife in particular birds

Andrew ThompsonI've seen the whole area known as Wilson's Pool completely under water on many occasions Peter F Clemo
but not recently - mind you in recent years I haven't visited the area
as much as I used to. More frequent visitors will probably give a better
assessment of how often the high tides reach over the banks of the
stream beyond the Black Road bridge.

Ken StokellThe
sand is not allowed to be sold but must be deposited back on the
beaches above the high tide line and also the harbour owner will not pay
for it to be done which shows how short sighted the harbour owner is if
that water way was dredged correctly t...See more

Group wall post by Peter F Clemo - Peter F Clemo wrote on Hayle development discussion group's wall: I've been looking at The Saltings, the tidally flooded area of Hayle Estuary for nigh on 60 years now. It strikes me that it is getting more and more shallow as the years go on. Fair enough it is little or no use except as an area of outstanding beauty and as a bird sanctuary but what happens when it's no longer flooded by the tide and the birds and wildlife are all lost. Will someone have a monster moan at the RSPB for allowing the habitat to be destroyed. Hayle estuary is looking very much in ... (12 likes, 14 comments) [Facebook - Hayle development discussion group]